Not Persian mythos (which is an endless fountain of joy), but I recently stumbled upon an Ur-source of Ancient Greek transmission to Modern Europe: Ibn Tufail's

Not Persian mythos (which is an endless fountain of joy), but I recently stumbled upon an Ur-source of Ancient Greek transmission to Modern Europe: Ibn Tufail's Improvement of Human Reason. From the first page one can feel its resonance and shocking modernity. From Galileo through Newton and von Humboldt down to the modern philosophical novels of Sartre and Camus ;) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16831 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16831